Bend, OR Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Bend, OR - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Bend, OR moved from $50,620 in May 2024 to $54,570 in May 2025 (+7.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Bend, OR sits +4.7 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Registered Nurses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Bend, OR
Registered Nurses publishes $135,010 here versus $97,550 nationally (+38.4%; 2,500metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $35,460 locally versus $31,200 nationally (+13.7%).
- Registered Nurses$135,010 in Bend, OR sits 38.4% above the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,500 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$35,460 in Bend, OR sits 13.7% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (3,680 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$93,660 in Bend, OR sits 11.4% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,260 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$36,290 in Bend, OR sits 10.4% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,390 published local jobs).
Registered Nurses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Bend, OR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 13460 · Bend, OR $66K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #81/528
- RPP-MID 103.6
- OCC-MID 375 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $263K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-AHEAD +4.7 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Buffalo-Cheektow…
- BOOK-FULL 369 rows · May 2025
Read with Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY (+$0 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Bend, OR
Employment scale inside Bend, OR's top-pay list
Registered Nurses and Software Developers lead published employment inside Bend, OR's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 2,500 jobs · $135,010
- 2. Software Developers 690 jobs · $129,030
- 3. Managers, All Other 370 jobs · $134,070
- 4. Financial Managers 290 jobs · $149,030
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 290 jobs · $129,890
- 6. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 290 jobs · $127,220
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 260 jobs · $166,310
- 8. Physician Assistants 220 jobs · $148,610
- 9. Sales Managers 200 jobs · $149,450
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 190 jobs · $159,100
- 11. Pharmacists 180 jobs · $165,960
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 150 jobs · $169,920
- 13. Natural Sciences Managers 150 jobs · $135,710
- 14. Personal Financial Advisors 150 jobs · $133,080
- 15. Family Medicine Physicians 120 jobs · $262,570
- 16. Dentists, General 120 jobs · $224,990
- 17. Human Resources Managers 110 jobs · $139,380
- 18. Electrical Engineers 110 jobs · $127,090
Occupations Tracked
375
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$66,336
employment-weighted, 369 complete rows
Top Salary
$262,570
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
103.6
4% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Bend, OR
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family Medicine Physicians | $262,570 |
| 2 | Dentists, General | $224,990 |
| 3 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $169,920 |
| 4 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $166,310 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $165,960 |
| 6 | Nurse Practitioners | $159,100 |
| 7 | Sales Managers | $149,450 |
| 8 | Financial Managers | $149,030 |
| 9 | Physician Assistants | $148,610 |
| 10 | Marketing Managers | $142,640 |
| 11 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $140,390 |
| 12 | Human Resources Managers | $139,380 |
| 13 | Natural Sciences Managers | $135,710 |
| 14 | Registered Nurses | $135,010 |
| 15 | Managers, All Other | $134,070 |
| 16 | Purchasing Managers | $133,720 |
| 17 | Personal Financial Advisors | $133,080 |
| 18 | Computer Programmers | $132,280 |
| 19 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $132,010 |
| 20 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $129,890 |
| 21 | Optometrists | $129,810 |
| 22 | Software Developers | $129,030 |
| 23 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $127,220 |
| 24 | Electrical Engineers | $127,090 |
| 25 | Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | $124,970 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Bend, OR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $33,090 |
| Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other | $33,780 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $34,420 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,760 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $34,880 |
| Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other | $35,100 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $35,360 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $35,460 |
| Tutors | $35,500 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $35,600 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in OR
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside OR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($66,336 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Bend, OR wage figures in a real decision
- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Bend, OR at $262,570/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $66,336 adjusts to about $64,027 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 103.6. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for OR before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.